USER INTERFACE DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING CAR MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM

• US 20110128164A1
• Filed: 04/05/2010
• Published: 06/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Kang, Sung Hyun, Lee, Sang-Hyun
• Application Number:
  US12/753,944
• Publication Number:
  US 20110128164A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/995.16
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

The present invention features a user interface device for controlling a car multimedia system that preferably includes a remote touchpad unit, a display unit displaying various kinds of modes of a multimedia system in accordance with a three-dimensional signal received from the remote touchpad unit, and a control unit controlling to operate the multimedia system in accordance with the three-dimensional signal provided from the remote touchpad unit. According to the user interface device, it is possible to manipulate a multimedia system by a three-dimensional interaction using a remote touchpad unit to improve the utility. Accordingly, the danger of accident and the driver'"'"'s loading can be suitably reduced.

Claims

1. A user interface device for controlling a car multimedia system, comprising:

a remote touchpad unit;

a display unit displaying various kinds of modes of a multimedia system in accordance with a three-dimensional signal received from the remote touchpad unit; and

a control unit controlling the multimedia system in accordance with the three-dimensional signal provided from the remote touchpad to unit.

2. The user interface device according to claim 1, wherein the three-dimensional signal comprises a wipe pass gesture that is performed in a non-touch state with the remote touchpad unit, and

wherein the display unit displays a scene that corresponds to the wipe pass gesture.

3. The user interface device according to claim 2, wherein the wipe pass gesture is performed between a first height from the remote touchpad unit and a second height that is higher than the first height.

4. The user interface device according to claim 3, wherein when an object is positioned between the second height and a third height that is higher than the second height, the display unit displays a manipulation standby scene.

5. The user interface device according to claim 4, wherein when the object is positioned between the first height and a height that corresponds to a position just before the object touches the remote touchpad unit, the position of the object is displayed on the display unit.

6. The user interface device according to claim 5, wherein the position of the object is activated as a highlight on the display unit.

7. The user interface device according to claim 1, wherein an illumination unit is displayed on the display unit, which displays a corresponding scene with different brightness in accordance with the is height of an object that approaches the remote touchpad unit.

8. The user interface device according to claim 1, wherein in a navigation mode, a map is displayed on the display unit with zoom in stages in accordance with the height of an object that approaches the remote touchpad unit.

16. A motor vehicle comprising the user interface device of claim 1.

9. A user interface device for controlling a car multimedia system, comprising:

a remote touchpad unit; and

a display unit displaying a state in accordance with a height of an object in a non-touch state, wherein the height corresponds to a Z-axis signal, and wherein the signal is received from the remote touchpad unit.

10. The user interface device according to claim 9, wherein the remote touchpad unit is provided with an illumination unit which displays a corresponding scene with different brightness in accordance with the height of the object that approaches the remote touchpad unit, and

the display unit displays another illumination unit that is linked with the illumination unit of the remote touchpad unit.

11. The user interface device according to claim 9, wherein in a navigation mode, if an object is made to approach the remote touchpad unit after entering into a magnifying glass mode through clicking of a magnifying glass icon, a map that is displayed on the display unit is enlarged in stages at a predetermined zoom rate.

12. A user interface device for controlling a car multimedia system, comprising:

a remote touchpad unit that receives a three-dimensional signal;

a display unit displaying modes of a multimedia system in accordance with the three-dimensional signal received from the remote touchpad unit; and

a control unit controlling the multimedia system in accordance with the three-dimensional signal from the remote touchpad unit.

13. The user interface device according to claim 12, wherein the three-dimensional signal comprises a wipe pass gesture.

14. The user interface device according to claim 12, wherein the wipe pass gesture is performed in a non-touch state with the remote touchpad unit.

15. The user interface device according to claim 12, wherein the display unit displays a scene that corresponds to the wipe pass gesture.

17. A motor vehicle comprising the user interface device of claim 12.